New Design for the FreeBSD Website
The FreeBSD website has implemented a new design to enhance security against automated scraping. This design utilizes a system called Anubis, which employs a Proof-of-Work scheme to deter bots. The goal is to protect resources while allowing legitimate users access without unnecessary barriers.
- ▪The Anubis system aims to reduce the impact of AI companies scraping websites.
- ▪It uses a Proof-of-Work scheme similar to Hashcash to make scraping more expensive.
- ▪Users must enable JavaScript to navigate past the Anubis challenge.
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Making sure you're not a bot! Loading...You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable, but at mass scraper levels it adds up and makes scraping much more expensive.Ultimately, this is a placeholder solution so that more time can be spent on fingerprinting and identifying headless browsers (EG: via how they do font rendering) so that the challenge proof of…
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